Setting Goals Goal setting is vital for your success, as without written goals you haven't really decided what you want to achieve in life. Active goal setting will give you the focus to concentrate on what you really want to achieve, and the ability to break down your big goals into smaller steps, so that you can see that the day by day achievement of these smaller goals will being you nearer to your larger goals. Goal setting is a wonderful technique that has been used by some of the world's most successful people, and the wonderful thing is that it works for everyone.

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There are just two problems that get in the way of you achieving what you want in life.  Knowing what you want and not knowing how to get it, and not knowing what you want. Proper goal setting can overcome both of these problems.

Personal Goal Setting Is Important

 Personal goal setting is important to anyone who wants to achieve anything in life from raising confident children to having your own business. It is the best way of deciding exactly what you want out of life so that you have a plan to achieve it. 

Goals are an essential tool to achieving success, and success is whatever you want to achieve in life. The definition is up to you.

What are your real goals in life? -

• To be happy?
• To be healthy?
• To have good relationships?
• To be wealthy?
• To enjoy your career?
• To retire early?
• To have your own business?

Your goals are your own personal property and only you can set them. They can be secrets that only you know about, though the goals that you let other people know about are more likely to happen.

To set your goals properly you need to write them down and review them regularly. It's no good just having vague thoughts about what you would like. Goal setting is a discipline which makes you really think about what you want.

The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams - Og Mandino

Goals can be big or little. They all count, and they are all worth writing down. Setting big goals can look too intimidating, so break them down into smaller goals, and rank them by how long you think it will take to achieve. Ideally have a range of goals between today and 10 years time.

Review your goals every day. and each day make a list of the goals you want to achieve today, and cross them off as you achieve them.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us - Jim Rohn

Your goals can change dramatically over the course of your life. Keep your goals list up to date to reflect what is important to you now, and what you want to achieve in the next 10 years.

Your goals will show what new skills you need as part of your lifelong learning. This will help you achieve better goals, and achieve them more easily.

 Writing Down Your Goals -

• Makes you decide what you want
• Lets you prioritise your time
• Lets you break down tasks into smaller units
• Shows your progress

The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it - Michelangelo

How To Get The Most Out Of Your Goals -

• Write them down
• Review them regularly (best daily)
• Act on them every day
• Rewrite them as they change
• Share them with others who can help
• Rank goals according to time (So you can have today's goals, this week's, this month's, this years, 3 year, 5 year and 10 year goals)
• Break the big long-term goals down into smaller shorter-term goals
• Don't be afraid of big goals (Including the ones you don't yet know how to achieve)
• Stretch yourself
• Use your goals to plan your lifelong learning
• Let your main goals be based on the things you love to do
• Try to earn your living based on the things you love doing
• Live and enjoy the present as well as planning for the future

Resources:

Goals! by Brian Tracy Goals! How To Get Everything You Want - Faster Than You Ever Thought Possible. Based on more than 20 years of experience and research, this book presents a simple, powerful, and effective goal setting and goal achieving method that has been used by more than one million people. Available as a book from Amazon UK
Little Goals, Big Results by Eileen Mulligan The things we want to achieve in life often involve big concepts like shifting career or downsizing and moving to the country. Top life coach Eileen shows you how to achieve this. Through a process of setting little goals on a daily basis you'll discover just how easy it is to turn your life around. Available as a book from Amazon UK
Play To Win: 10 Steps To Achieving Your Goals by Karren Brady This is essential reading for women who want to have it all. Karen at 23 took over as Managing Director of Birmingham City Football Club, cleared its debt and turned it around. She reveals her secrets and shares the techniques you can adopt to succeed in your own life, on your own terms. Available as a book from Amazon UK
Unleash The Warrior Within by Richard Machowicz War is hell, but if you prepare properly for war, there's not much about life that will take you by surprise. This book takes the lessons Richard learned as a Navy SEAL and applies them to real-life to achieve your goals. Available as a book from Amazon UK